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Monday, April 27, 2015

New Band To Burn One To: In Your Long Arms

Now this is interesting! It’s not often that there comes
along much to shake up the musical genres that we talk about day in day out,
not that we always want there to be, but when bonafide original concepts come
along, they deserve the plaudits for the work they’ve done, if it’s good of
course. May we present to you the sound of Brownsville, Texas’, In Your Long
Arms, and their new record RUINR, seven songs of spellbinding shoe-gazing
sludge!

The aggression of sludge, and the dreary atmospherics of
shoe-gaze are possibly at the furthest ends of the musical scale, but somehow
these Texans have made it work. They’ve slowed down the sludge so that the
rawness becomes a droning overture to Xavier’s primal vocals as the songs fight
their way through thick swathes of riff filled gloomy emotions, channelling a
new style of death music, a sense of impending doom that is all encompassing.

RUINR is record which needs to be experienced in full, an
album’s album, where no individual songs outweigh the others. The tracks work
like a blanket, smothering its victim until you pull your way to the other
side. It’s not music for the faint-hearted, but it’s a worthwhile ride for
those brave enough to let the gloom take them on. In Your Long Arms have
created something special here.